It would require 10 senators to start a filibuster and then speak continuously on the floor to keep it going.
Among other changes, filibusters would require 10 senators to start, and members would have to speak continuously on the floor to keep it going.
At the end of one of his chapters, Fox, who teaches history at the University of Southern California, concludes of Jesus that "his name has been spoken continuously, earnestly and hopefully by a vast and diversified body of interpreters".
And it would require senators to speak continuously on the floor to keep a filibuster going, preventing the common practice of a single senator secretly holding up a bill.
It would make these major changes: NO LAZY FILIBUSTERS At least 10 senators would have to file a filibuster petition, and members would have to speak continuously on the floor to keep the filibuster going.
Failing to come up with the 60 votes necessary to cut off debate has been sufficient in recent years to scuttle a bill, meaning that senators no longer have to speak continuously on the Senate floor to block a vote.
We were part of the crowd who raised our voices in anger as the Republicans who control the Legislature tried to shut down Ms. Davis, who spoke continuously for about 11 hours — unable to eat, drink, sit, lean or use the bathroom — to run out the clock on the session.
Rather than allow a single senator to raise an objection that triggered a 60-vote requirement, their plan would require 10 signatures to start a filibuster and would then force an increasingly large group of members to speak continuously on the floor to keep it going.
He spoke continuously for a then-record 18 hours, 23 minutes in his futile attempt to kill the legislation.
